use Coinstar machines - turn spare change around your house into MONEY - General

But the spare change around my house is already money.

This thread is silly silly people doing silly things silly

Get coin rolls from your bank. They will hand them over for free. Go home and fill up the rolls, bring them to the bank, and they will give you cash without the 10% deduction.

You should save it, And when your at a store you really hate you should give it to them so they have to count it out one by one.

I once had a giant bottle shaped coin thingy. I eventually filled it, and when I tried to lift it up I dropped it on my foot. 100 pounds of coins hurts yo.

op is officially rich

[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21396902]Or just go to the bank. No annoying-ass fees.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=E104 Epsilon;21398918]Get coin rolls from your bank. They will hand them over for free. Go home and fill up the rolls, bring them to the bank, and they will give you cash without the 10% deduction.[/QUOTE] No, my cheap-ass bank doesn't give rolls.

Bro, you get ripped off about $10.00 in change, go to the bank and theirs don't charge fees.

Nah you get these in the UK as well. Once every year my family goes with all the spare change in the house and we split it between the four of us.

[QUOTE=aznz888;21397661]well whatever i was too lazy to stop at a bank goddamn plus i don't know what tax ya'll are talking about, i got no tax'd[/QUOTE] every coin star machine takes whatever tax that state is in out of the final total. there's even a message before you start telling you this. [editline]02:18AM[/editline] so unless you're in new hampshire, you got taxed.

We got this in UK.

In the UK they charge something stupid like 35p for every pound. Banks have these machines for free :D

so you're saying that it adds tax without you knowing? because it told me no tax... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Use the BANK, pay no COMMISION.

My bank likes to count each individual roll, which takes a lot of time. I use Coinstar only to get Amazon certificates, where it charges no fees.

I keep all my spare change in stacks on my desk. I also use coins as coasters. :smug:

I use them to turn my change into Amazon gift certificates, if you turn it into a certificate it doesn't take a fee.

Got them here in Canada. Charge is over 9 cents on every dollar. Honestly, 10 percent of your money just to shave a few minutes off rolling up your change? Forget it.

[QUOTE=aznz888;21406640]so you're saying that it adds tax without you knowing? because it told me no tax... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF[/QUOTE] it's a service, as with every service there comes a service fee.

[QUOTE=Hexxeh;21396916]If I remember rightly, the UK versions of these take a certain percentage, that's how they make money. You can get more by going to a bank.[/QUOTE] The one by me takes a small cut, but donates it all to charity. I use it alot.

The reason people use Coinstar is the convenience. Imagine this: You walk into a bank with two sacks of assorted coins, probably filled with thousands of them. You wait in line and go up to the attendant and you smack the coin sacks on the counter. The attendant looks up and gives you the dirtiest look you've ever seen. She knows that she'll have to count the money by hand and you will have to watch every agonizing second of it. Meanwhile the people behind you are resenting the jackass at the front who need his piggy banks converted while they are trying to cash checks or whatnot. You are standing uncomfortably at the front of this queue of pissed off people, in front of a banker who now hates your guts and wants to choke you with your own coins; and there you are, just waiting...waiting... Or if banks do have coin counters then people like me just don't know about it and don't want to feel like tools.

[QUOTE=Nitrowing;21411067]Or if banks do have coin counters then people like me just don't know about it and don't want to feel like tools.[/QUOTE] Banks have a modified version of a Coinstar machine.

Save up all your spare change for a while, then cash it in at the bank. Immediate $ for whatever, I use my spare change for pot.

I would use it for money counting and sorting, but if it has a fee, i would go to a bank instead. Also holy crap 500 quarters...